Insight into approximations for drug release from polymer matrix

AIChE Journal

Volumn 54, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 2220-2227

  Lin, Sung Hwa ^a  

^a NATIONAL ILAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Heat balance integral method; Integrodifferential equation; Polymer matrix; Polynomial concentration profile; Undissolved drug

Indexed keywords

EID: 49049106082     PISSN: 00011541     EISSN: 15475905     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/aic.11533     Document Type: Article

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